Jean-Bernard Condat
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Jean-Bernard Condat | |
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| Born | November 26, 1963 France |
| Other names | Concombre, Cucumber |
| Occupation | Programmer |
| Known for | Computer security, Hacking |
Jean-Bernard Condat (born 1963) is a French computer security expert and former hacker who became a consultant to the Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (DST).[1][2] Using the name concombre (English: cucumber), he achieved status as one of the best-known French hackers in the 1990s.[3]
Chaos Computer Club, France
Condat was born in 1963 in Béziers, Hérault. He completed the baccalauréat at age 16 before attending the University of Lyon to study musicology,[4] earning his deug.[5]
It was around 1982 that Condat joined the Directorate of Territorial Surveillance,[2] an intelligence agency within the French National Police, who planted him in strategic positions, such as a sysop for CompuServe. In 1989, he, under instruction from the DST and agent Jean-Luc Delacour, created the Chaos Computer Club France, a fake hacker group posing as a national offshoot of the Chaos Computer Club, with the purpose of investigating and surveilling the French hacker community.[6][7] The group would also work with the National Gendarmarie.[8] The CCCF had an electronic magazine called Chaos Digest (ChaosD). Between 4 January 1993 and 5 August 1993, seventy-three issues were published (ISSN 1244-4901).